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Myanmar junta to lose restive state to armed group
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/08/2024
» SINGAPORE - Myanmar’s junta is on the verge of being expelled from a western-most state bordering Bangladesh, according to a new report, marking the one of the biggest military losses since a 2021 coup led to renewed civilian conflict across the country.
Western armed forces facing a recruitment crisis
News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/04/2024
» Every morning on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an unsuspecting crew member is called to the bridge, presented with a cookie and asked to sit in the captain's chair.
Russian rock band faces deportation from Thailand
Gary Boyle, Published on 30/01/2024
» Members of a Russian rock band critical of the war in Ukraine are facing possible deportation home from Thailand after they were arrested in Phuket for working without a permit, officials told Reuters on Monday.
Myanmar's Rohingyas: 5 years of crisis
Published on 23/08/2022
» Myanmar's military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Stranger things
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 09/10/2020
» Everyone loves a good conspiracy. There's a reason why Netflix has a bunch of them ready for you to binge like Unsolved Mysteries, which will rock you to your core at just how completely plausible they are and how they could easily happen to any of us.
Cambodia jails another activist as crackdown widens
Published on 10/09/2020
» PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian activist has been imprisoned for five years on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government, a court said on Thursday, bringing to 17 the number of Prime Minister Hun Sen's opponents detained or convicted since late July.
Rough sailing
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 29/06/2020
» Life aboard a Chinese fishing vessel was a nightmare of abuse for Mashuri, who says he's never going to sea again. The 22-year old Indonesian is now safely back on dry land, working as a technician at a motorcycle garage in Lumajang, East Java.
You make the news: How Spectee mines social media
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 13/01/2020
» Spectee, a Tokyo-based information analysis company and online news agency, is looking for partnership in Southeast Asia where it is seeing huge growth in demand for video content.
HK protests: Behind the barricade
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 18/11/2019
» On the night of Nov 13th in Hong Kong, I heard there was a protest in the city centre of the area of the New Territories I was staying in, Sha Tin. After crossing the bridge over the Shing Mun River, I notice four protesters talking beneath a pedestrian underpass. Walking through the megamalls that constitute the city centre, I see workers clearing up broken glass but see no protesters. But on my way back across the bridge to my hotel, I encounter a crowd of about 50 people yelling and screaming abuse, and working my way through them, see a line of riot police advancing from the other direction. After several minutes of shining torches and bellowing warnings through a megaphone, the police raise the black flag warning that tear gas will be fired. The crowd retreats as one or two canisters are fired.
Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest
Published on 10/11/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia freed opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest on Sunday, more than two years after he was arrested and charged with treason, but the charges remain and he is banned from politics and from leaving the country. In a Facebook post, he demanded that the charges be dropped.